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2015 Minyanville Publishing and Multimedia, LLC. All Rights ReservedMore Trouble for Foxconn Foxconn the manufacturer responsible for recent improvements in suicide prevention technology is in the news again. Following in the footsteps of Sony (SNE) the MPAA several government agencies and Gene Simmons the company was hacked by online activists. The hacker group SwaggSec has claimed responsibility for the attack. They have issued a statement saying basically that they hacked Foxconn in the name of workers&rsquo; rights. The statement which is worth reading goes on to inform Foxconn that: They say you got your employees all worked up committing suicide &lsquo;n stuff. They say you hire chinese workers &rsquo;cause you think ...http://www.minyanville.com/mvpremium/2012/02/09/more-trouble-for-foxconn/
Thu, 9 Feb 2012 13:31:00 EST&quot;This American Life&quot; Goes Undercover at Foxconn, Reveals Harsh Conditions at iPhone Factory &ldquo;I&rsquo;m holding a new iPhone 4S in my hands. This is the one you can talk to and it talks back. Let&rsquo;s try this: Siri where do you come from?&rdquo; &nbsp; &ldquo;I Siri was designed by Apple in California.&rdquo; &nbsp; &ldquo;Where were you manufactured?&rdquo; &nbsp; &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not allowed to say.&rdquo; &nbsp; &ldquo;Why?&rdquo; &nbsp; &ldquo;Good question. Anything else I can do for you?&rdquo; &nbsp; And that was how Ira Glass opened the latest episode of Chicago Public Radio&rsquo;s This American Life in which Glass gets monologist Mike Daisey creator of the one-man stage show &ldquo;The Agony and the Ecstasy of ...http://www.minyanville.com/mvpremium/2012/01/12/this-american-life-goes-undercover/
Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:02:00 ESTFoxconn Workers Threaten Suicide in Pay DisputeFoxconn the Chinese maker of parts for companies like Apple (AAPL) Amazon (AMZN) Sony (SNE) Dell (DELL) and Dow Jones (^DJI) components Microsoft (MSFT) and Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) is once again back in the news and it&#39;s deja vu all over again. &nbsp; Almost a year ago Minyanville&rsquo;s Justin Rohrlich took a look at the controversial working conditions at Foxconn&rsquo;s mammoth factory in Shenzhen a city in southern China. So bad were the conditions that 32 employees attempted suicide in 2010 with 14 of them succeeding. In response Foxconn raised wages by one-third to 1 200 yuan and even established an ...http://www.minyanville.com/mvpremium/2012/01/12/foxconn-workers-threaten-suicide-again/
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